WELLS HENRY

WELLS, CONNELL

Posted By: Shirley Vinsand (email)
Date: 9/25/2004 at 09:53:39

Found in the Humboldt Co Iowa History Book
Henrys S Wells real estate and insurance agent of Humboldt Co. is a native of Medina Co Ohio, born 23 Dec 1834. He is a son of Henry and Sarah Gaylord Wells of the latter a native of Hartford Conn. the former of Albany N Y. They went to Ohio about 1832 when that State was mostly a wild wilderness and were pioneer in Median County. Mr Wells was a wagon and carriage maker by trade, but at the time of his settlement in ohio there was not much demand for that kind of work....and he turned his hand to carpentering assisting in the erecton of many of the first houses in Medina Co. In after years he invented a machine for moving buildings and followed that occupation for many years. They were the parents of two children. The subject of this sketch recieved a liberal education and before he was of age commenced teaching school. In 1869 he went to TAMA CO IOWA and followed teaching. there he was married to Lizzie F Connell a daughter of Daniel Connell one of the early settlers of that county. Two chldren were blessed this union, Henrietta and Martha Josephine. In 1872 he came to Humboldt and engaged in his present business. Mr and Mrs Wells are members of the Congregational Church. He is a stong republican and a prominent active man in that party. On the 14th of August 1863 he enlisted in the 166th Ohio National Guard in the 100days service and was stationed at Arlington Heights and around Washington. He was mustered out at Cleveland in September 1865.